bornontheblue

On 4/15/2024 at 9:10 AM, grandjean87 said:

TR didn't think much of bald eagles, iirc. At least as a national symbol. 

What if they looked like this though. 

On 4/14/2024 at 9:12 PM, grandjean87 said:

I'd start w/micro dosing. 

I’m sorry I don’t know what that is. I’m an accountant, they don’t let me out much 

I’ll definitely check it out then. I couldn’t get over the CA/TX faction in the initial descriptions of the film . 
If it has good story, and seems plausible then I’ll watch it 

An Alpha Cow elephant in protecting her calf mode vs a Bull Moose teamed with 50 Bald Eagles

Discuss 
 

On 4/13/2024 at 5:44 PM, tailingpermit said:

That’s cuz yer mom’s recipe sucks.  

Went to the grocery store and a small little container of hummus was 9 dollars. WTH. 
 

Thanks Biden  

Israel is going to take Iran’s nuclear facilities out. You watch 

On 4/12/2024 at 8:01 PM, Lester_in_reno said:

off the top of this recent Sierra April 12 snowpack picture. Just slightly.

(see lake Tahoe, Walker Lake, Mono Lake)

Cool 

On 4/12/2024 at 8:17 PM, retrofade said:

I should probably start keeping some in cash for that purpose. 

The "amusing" thing is that what I would have divested probably would have been a share or two of NVDA. As things stand now (if my timeline is right), had I taken that, done the DJT flip, and re-invested itr all in NVDA again, I would have come up with more NVDA stock than I started with. Oh well, shit happens. 

Big name stocks like NVIDiA are great ., but don’t forget about the small caps . It’s harder to analyze them IMO, and maybe safer done through an ETF  

On 4/12/2024 at 8:09 PM, retrofade said:

Yeah, not even close. I saw the options financing fees and said hell no to that. I've been quietly enjoying my NVDA gains and sticking with my normal investing strategy. I took some losses on TSLA and AAPL, but overall, up close to 10% in the last year, and I'm good with that. 

I was tempted to divest some of what I had to throw at DJT when it went live and then sell once it went over 200% (which it seemed destined to do), but I decided I didn't want to mess with it. 

NVIDIA has been outstanding. 
 

I keep about 5 percent cash in my Schwab account and I was like what the hell . I’ll put 1000 in it and see what happens. 
 

Normally I’m like you and much more traditional 

On 4/12/2024 at 8:02 PM, Lester_in_reno said:

Bob is the biggest idiot and  douchebag in this forum.

Even "douchier" than Nevada Convert.

Oh cmon he’s a little misinformed at times but he’s not that bad.

I pretty much wrapped things up today. I’ve got a couple of easy extensions I need to work up over the weekend , but my tax season is about wrapped up 

back to regular life  

On 4/12/2024 at 7:10 PM, sactowndog said:

Put options are a cheaper approach 

I’m not going anywhere near that stock ever again. Got in, made a quick buck and got the hell out. Normally I’m a boring more traditional style investor 

On 4/12/2024 at 6:57 PM, retrofade said:

The price of Trump Media shares closed trading Friday down nearly 20% for the week.

DJT shares, which dropped by more than 8% within the first hour of trading Friday, eked out a slight gain by the end of the day.

Shares closed up 18 cents at $32.59, an increase of around .5%.

But that closing price still was more than $38 lower than what Trump Media shares first sold for when the social media company began public trading on March 26.

Shares of the company, which owns the Truth Social app, have dropped by 47.4% so far in April wiping out billions of dollars in the company’s market capitalization.

Former President Donald Trump is the biggest shareholder in the company, owning nearly 60% of its stock.

On Monday, Trump is set to start jury selection for his criminal trial in Manhattan Supreme Court on charges of falsifying business records related to a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Trump Media on March 26 opened its first day of trading with a price of $70.90 per share, hitting a high of nearly $80 later that same day. During trading that day, the company’s market capitalization topped $9.5 billion.

By Friday’s close, Trump Media’s market cap stood at $4.45 billion — a whopping $5 billion lower than the high it hit more than two weeks ago.

Trump Media began public trading a day after it merged with the shell company Digital World Acquisition Corp., which was created to help a private firm go public.

Trump Media last year had revenue of just $4.1 million, and reported a net loss of $58 million.

That performance and the relatively high price of the company’s stock have drawn keen interest from short sellers, who make trades that are effectively bets that a company’s share price will drop.

As of this week, so-called short interest in DJT was $208.7 million, with 5.44 million shares shorted, according to Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director of predictive analytics at S3 Partners, a leading financial data marketplace platform.

There were fewer than 100,000 shares of Trump Media available to borrow to sell short. Traders who want to sell stock short must borrow shares to sell, with the expectation that they will later buy back the same number of shares at a lower price to return them to the lender, pocketing the price difference between the trades.

Trump Media has 136.7 million outstanding shares.

A week ago, traders who wanted short Trump Media shares had to pay up to 900% in annual financing costs, meaning they would need a then-$30-per-share drop within a month to break even on their trade, Dusaniwsky said.

Since then, however, financing costs for short trades in Trump Media had sharply fallen, to 200%.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/12/trump-media-shares-drop-more-than-5percent-after-trading-day-begins.html

So you bought like 500 shares then ? 

On 4/12/2024 at 6:47 PM, sactowndog said:

Yeah I’m just too risk adverse to f with it.

It’s a shit stock. Definitely not  buy and hold 

On 4/12/2024 at 5:43 PM, sactowndog said:

So just curious, how many uncovered puts were you willing to buy?   An uncovered put is a risky bet as Trump has enough billionaire friends who could create a hell of a squeeze.  Not a risk I wanted to take.  

A made a quick 850 dollars on it in one day   

On 4/12/2024 at 4:30 PM, AztecSU said:

Alright so who you guys choosing the orange incest liker or the senile groper? We must've all been terrible people in our last lives to have such bad options. 

See the none of the above thread. 

On 4/12/2024 at 11:38 AM, tailingpermit said:

You should flip through all the Trump threads from 2016-2020. 

If that standard were applied equally half of this forum would've been banned. 

Maybe we can do it again for 4 years, lol!

On 4/12/2024 at 9:21 AM, grandjean87 said:

Pin that post. 

I wrote a check to the flooring guy.  Now, gotta est. Idaho and send them and the Feds $$.  Expensive day, here.  Leftover Taco Time bean burritos on the menu. Probably for a while. lol. 

Better get that check to the state. They need money to rid the porn from the libraries 

The current interest rate level is going to be the new normal, actually it's the old normal if you want to be 100% accurate. 

The fed may play word games and and make the market think there will be cuts , but there won't be until the next downturn.

I think there may be 1  or  2 rate hikes after the election. 

On 4/12/2024 at 9:23 AM, Poorohman said:

Jesus christ.  I feel sorry for whoever is unlucky enough to hire you. Keep going with the strawmans.

So if you have a rental property and the going rate is $2,200 a month : 26,400 a year

You have the following expenses: 

Repairs and Maintenance 2,500

Property Taxes: 3,500

Mortgage Interest 12,000

Insurance  - 1200

HOA Dues 1,500

Management Fee 1,850

How much are you going to charge in rent ? 

On 4/11/2024 at 10:49 PM, grandjean87 said:

You obviously aren't pounding them down tonight. It's going to sting a bit, but you don't pay income tax when you don't have income.  Minimal w/holding has long been the plan. 

Only had a couple after a long day. Shit, next year I'll do your taxes for the friends and family rate - Free.  Unless it is super time consuming. 

On 4/11/2024 at 10:27 PM, grandjean87 said:

You have had some beer inspired posts along that line, but I hope you advise clients sober :). 
 

I've got some checks to write tomorrow.  New flooring gets finished.  Might get an invoice for the new countertops, but the Dept. of Treasury and the Idaho Tax Commission will see a couple in the mail.  Thanks for reminding me. lol

You need to pay three hundred trillion bazillion dollars by Monday at 5 PM . 

On 4/11/2024 at 5:06 PM, SalinasSpartan said:

Brief recap:

 

I’ve finally figured it out. Your online persona is a douche because your from Salinas. Not a bigger shithole in CA.  Well maybe you can thumb your nose at people from Barstow. 

On 4/11/2024 at 2:25 PM, SharkTanked said:

Interesting. I think a person can be a dick and still be a good person. If fact, I don't think I have encountered anyone here, besides maybe Maynard or SteveAztec, who I thought was actually a bad person. Maybe a couple Boise fans way back who showed themselves to be completely unhinged. GoodWillHunting guy and that Lycan guy.

I don't agree with a lot of Salina's takes, but I don't think he is a bad person.

Cool. My opinion of him is different. He adds nothing as far as I am concerned.